Throng

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd1.
  • n. A large group of things; a host.
  • v. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.
  • v. To press in on.
  • verb-intransitive. To gather, press, or move in a throng.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • n. A group of things; a host or swarm.
  • v. To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • v. To congregate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  • n. A great multitude.
  • verb-intransitive. To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
  • v. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • v. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
  • adj. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A crowd or great concourse of people; a multitude, great in proportion to the space it occupies or can occupy.
  • n. A great number: as, the heavenly throng.
  • n. A busy period, great press of business, or the time when business is most active: as, the throng of the harvest; he called just in the throng.
  • n. Synonyms Crowd, etc. See multitude.
  • To come (or go) in multitudes; press eagerly in crowds; crowd.
  • To crowd or press; press unduly upon, as a crowd or multitude of people anxious to view something.
  • To crowd into; fill as or as with a crowd.
  • To fill or stuff.
  • Thickly crowded or set close together; thronged; crowded.
  • Much occupied or engaged; busy.
  • Preterit of thring.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. press tightly together or cram
  • n. a large gathering of people
  • Verb Form
    thronged    thronging    throngs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crowd together    crowd   
    Form
    thronged    thronging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    multitude    crowd    thronged    crowded    busy    crowding   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Guangdong    Hmong    Jong    Kong    Long    Pong    Song    Vietcong    along    belong   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crowd    multitude    mob    procession    horde    swarm    assemblage    host    thousand    chorus